Monday Madness HEAVY METAL "Mara's Edge"

Here's a retro-kool short story illustrated by one of the most underrated comic creators currently working...

Milton Knight Jr!

As you might have guessed, Knight was heavily-influenced by 1920s-40s animators including the Fleisher Brothers, Tex Avery, and Chuck Jones.

He's worked in comics, animation, magazine illustration, commercial art, even CD and LP album cover graphics!

Though he collaborated with writer Steve Riggenberg on this tale never-reprinted tale from Heavy Metal V9N7 (1985), Knight usually scripts his own material.
Check out his website HERE!

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Graphic Canon

Volume 3

(Featuring Milton Knight Jr's graphic adaptation of Zora Neale Hurston's classic "Poker!")

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Space Force Saturdays SPEED CARTER "Core People"

"Watch the Skies!" they cried in the 1950s!

They should have said "Look out below!" as this subterranean saga from Speed Carter: SpaceMan #2 (1953) proves!

OK, science pretty much gets tossed out the porthole on this one, but, hey, it's fun!
Written (as are all the Speed Carter stories) by Hank Chapman and illustrated with his usual flair by Joe Maneely.

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Complete Adventures of Lucky Starr

by Isaac Asimov

(under the pen-name "Paul French")

Omnibus of ALL Six Space-Opera Sagas!

David Starr: Space Ranger, Pirates of the Asteroids, Oceans of Venus, Big Sun of Mercury, Moons of Jupiter, Rings of Saturn

Friday Fun: Mars STILL Attacks...25 Years Later!

With the landing of NASA's Perseverance Mars probe, and, in a fit of nostalgia, I searched the Net for info about the movie Mars Attacks. (I worked for Topps Comics when the film came out in 1996!)

Imagine my surprise to discover...thanks to the WayBack Machine, that the movie's site was operational until July of 2011, and still exists HERE a decade later!

If you want to see a classic example of pre-Web 2.0 site-making, have a look!

It's retro-kool!

ACK! ACK ACK!

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Mars Attacks!
The Art of the Movie

Reading Room WORLDS UNKNOWN "Day After the Day the Martians Came!"

With NASA's Perseverance probe about to land on Mars...

Art by Ross Andru & John Romita

We thought we'd present a tale of the Martians returning the favor that also ties-in with Black History Month!
Wonder how?
Keep reading...

The short story this comic tale is based upon first appeared in the ground-breaking 1960s anthology Dangerous Visions, a collection of original novelettes and novellas conceived and edited by Harlan Ellison, which should be on any science fiction fan's bookshelf or eReader.

Several of the stories in the anthology, in particular this one and "Riders of the Purple Wage" by Phillip Jose Farmer, explored the subject of racial prejudice.

The never-reprinted comic adaptation from the first issue of Marvel's short-lived anthology Worlds Unknown, is scripted by Gerry Conway and illustrated by Ralph Reese, who began in 1966 as an assistant to Wally Wood and went solo within a couple of years, first as an inker, and later as a penciler/inker.

He's done work for all the major comics companies (usually on their anthology titles), as well as stints on the Flash Gordon newspaper strip and licensing art for Childrens' Television Workshop!

BTW, the Grand Comics Database lists John Romita as sole artist of the cover, but, IMHO, the figure poses are clearly Ross Andru, not Romita.

(And the GCD originally listed Marie Severin and Sal Buscema as the artists!)

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 Dangerous Visions

(where the prose version of this tale first appeared!)